{"id":29178,"date":"2025-01-05T09:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T03:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29178"},"modified":"2025-04-09T01:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:36:18","slug":"rabbit-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rabbit-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Rabbit Fever:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also commonly known as <strong>Tularemia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a rare and sometimes deadly infectious disease that is seen in <strong>children between the 5-9 years age group, older men,<\/strong> and American Indians or Alaska Natives.<\/li>\n<li>It is caused by the <strong>bacterium Francisella tularensis<\/strong> and can infect animals and people. Rabbits, hares and rodents are more likely to get the disease.<\/li>\n<li>The illness can be mild or severe and high grade fever is a common symptom in all kinds of illnesses.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The signs and symptoms of tularemia can depend on how the bacteria has entered the body.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong> Skin ulcers (observed after a tick or deer fly bite),Irritation and inflammation in eyes, Difficulty in breathing, Sore throat, mouth ulcer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transmission:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>People can also become infected in many ways, <strong>including tick and deer fly bites,<\/strong> and contact with infected animals like rabbits, rodents, and hares.<\/li>\n<li>The infection can also spread by <strong>drinking contaminated water<\/strong> and inhaling contaminated aerosols or agricultural and landscaping dust, and laboratory exposure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment:<\/strong> Vaccination for tularemia is not yet available in the U.S. It can be treated with antibiotics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Bacteria?<\/h3>\n<p>These are microscopic single-celled prokaryotic organisms that play a crucial role in the ecosystem and have a significant impact on human health. Bacteria can be found all over the world, including the top of the mountains or the deeper trenches in the oceans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/life-style\/health-fitness\/health-news\/what-is-rabbit-fever-the-rare-disease-up-by-56-in-the-us-signs-and-symptoms-explained\/articleshow\/116915634.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is &#8216;rabbit fever&#8217;, the rare disease up by 56% in the US? Signs and symptoms explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbit Fever is also commonly known as Tularemia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}